Love Through Touch

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Tara clutched Hyatt closely in her lap and huddled into the back of the cell. She didn't know what the place was, or where it was, but she knew it didn't 'feel' right.

"Hyatt?"

Tara turned when she heard her friends name called.

"That is Hyatt isn't it?" a girl in an adjacent cell asked.

Tara nodded mutely. She ran her fingers through the dark hair spread across her shoulders.

"Did they touch her?" her voice wavered a bit.

"Yes. She was trying to contact a friend. She hasn't moved since he touched her" Tara cradled her closer.

"Are you close to her?" the girl moved so that she was sitting at the entrace of her cell, pressing her palms against the inpenetrable doors.

"Reasonably" Tara said slowly. She avoided coming in direct contact with Hyatt's pale skin.

"Does she trust you?" she rested her face against the glass.

"Yes" Tara whispered.

"Then touch her"

Tara ran her finger over Hyatt's brow. The girls skin began to regain it's color and her shallow breathing picked up to the regular heavy breaths of someone waking up. Tara looked to the girl in the cell "How did you know?"

The girl ignored her watching Hyatt carefully "Hyatt wake up"

Faith's interest became peeked when the girl in the cell next to her's raised her voice. She moved to the front of her cell and immediately recognized Tara "Hey your Red's girl aren't you?" She tapped the glass "What are you doing here?"

"Sitting apparently" Hyatt answer before Tara opened her mouth. She slowly moved out of Tara's lap and rubbed her arms "I have got to work on my resistance while I'm using my empathy"

"It still leaves you vulnerable to attack huh?" the girl across from them asked.

Hyatt's head jerked up "Madison!"

"In the flesh" came thughiughing reply "I guess they caught you too"

"Well, duh\att att turned to Tara "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, they just knocked me around a bit" Tara reached out and touched Hyatt's forehead "Kinda scared though"

Hyatt smiled.

"Oh so now you're cheatin' on Red" Faith crossed her arms and gave Tara a respectful nod "And you got good taste for the sloopy seconds"

Hyatt turned and paused. She knew this girl.

"Oh my god it's you!" Faith spun so that her back faced the two girls.

"Faith, well, well, well. What brings you here?" Hyatt pressed against the glass "I'm guessing it has something to do with magic?"

"I've noticed too" Madison added "Everyone here has some kinda gift, or they're Mystical in some way, shape, or form"

"Ok. But the insane vampires says they like her brain" Faith snapped turning around.

"She means Drusilla" Madison helped.

"Drusilla has visions, and she can hypnotise with the best of them" Hyatt sighed "I'll never achieve that" Hyatt frowned "Then again she's like 200"

"214" Drusilla said softly "But who's counting?"

"You I think" Madison smiled.

"Shut up, your babe in arms. I could bite you, you know" Drusilla pouted.

"Why are you here" Hyatt asked Faith again.

"Sh-sh-she's a slayer" Tara stuttered. Her stutter always got worse when she was frightened.

"But there is only one" Hyatt shook her head "She can't be a slayer there's only one"

"Buffy died. B-but they b-brought her back-" Tara took a deep breath.

"Then I killed her little friend. Slit her throat I did" Drusilla said proudly "Spike gave me special kisses" she pointed down beneath her dreary brown clothing "Wanna see?"

"No" they all shouted in unison. Though Tara and Hyatt couldn't see her. There was a solid white wall seperating their cells.

"Ok. Buffy died?" Hyatt looked to Tara.

"T-twice" Tara nodded.

"And they brought her back?" Hyatt leaned against the wall "Twice"

"Yes" Faith turned and stared her down "She drowned, Xander resesitated her. He told me. Said it was like a kiss"

"Then Willow brought her back when she jumped into the gateway of hell" Tara's whisper came loud and clear to Faith, Hyatt and Madison.

Drusilla was humming to herself.

"Willow's that strong?" Faith was obvious with her surprise.

"Yes. She's stronger then I can ever hope to be" Tara whispered shaking her head.

"I just hope she's safe"
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"I just hope she's safe. I don't know what I'd do if I lost her" Willow whimpered and buried her head in her arms.

The bell rang and the front door swung open. Willow jerked her head back up.

Dawn ran in with a shirt covering her head, and Xander a few steps behind her.

"Therre cre cops at my school. They were looking for me" Dawn sat at the table across from Willow "What's going on?"

"We don't know" Anya said sadly "Buffy just went to pick up Star. There was a woman talking to her"

"Some woman tried to snatch that lovely little girl? What a pity" X ander said sarcastically. He recieved four angry glares "I'll be over there"

The bell rang again and Star rushed in.

Twice.

"Oh god now there's two of them" Xander blinked hoping one would disappear "I can't take this" he disappeared into the training room.

Buffy came in with Mycah in tow "Good everybody's here"

"I see you found Hyatt" Giles said removing his glasses to clean.

"That's not Hyatt" Anya pointed out "She looks alot like her but that's not Hyatt"

"She's right. Who are you? and why does Star have a body double?" Willow asked taking both girls into her lap "Hi"

Star buried her face in Willow's shoulder. Kolby followed suit.

"This is Mycah. She's a cousin or something" Buffy waved at the girl behind her "She had a bad feeling about today. But I got to Kolby first and we kinda met at Hyatt's car"

"Which is kinda abandoned" Mycah frowned "But I took the keys"

"So they weren't robbed?" Giles asked "Amazing resemblance" she studied Mycah. He started to notice sublte differences between the two. Mycah had shorter hair, and she didn't have the defeated slump to her shoulders that Hyatt sometimes bore. She was also slightly taller.

"Nope. Even their purses were there" Buffy sat and waved to a chair inviting Mycah to sit as well.

"But who would kidnap them? I know they're gorgeous but the slave trade isn't all that great for lesbians" Anya said sitting with them.

She recieved strange looks all around.

"What? There is such thing, and they are lesbians" Anya pouted.

"She had on a bracelet" Star sat up quickly barely missing Willow's chin "It looked generic. I had numbers on it"

"Do you remember the numbers?" Giles lifted Star away from Willow and settled her on his hip.

"557311. She knew about fenz too" Star hugged Giles arm.

"557311?" Willow's eyes narrowed "Why does that sound so familiar?

"She knew about Fenz?" Mycah frowned "How the hell would she know about Fenz?"

"Um what's Fenz?" Buffy raised her hand to get their attention.

"It's the celebration of Family entertained in a nuetral zone" Anya said watching Giles watch Star.

Everyone turned to her, then followed her gaze to Giles.

Star rested her head on his tweed covered shoulder, and Giles smiled fondly at her. Everyone smiled fondly at Giles.

"What are you all looking at?" Giles asked , he placed Star on her feet and began pacing. Star followed behind him mimicking every move.

"The cuteness that is you Giles" Busmilsmiled at him "Admit it. She's stolen your heart"

"I'm, I'm rather fond of the child yes" Giles stopped pacing, Star bumped into his legs.

"You love her. Your hooked. Just like the rest of us" Dawn said flipping her hair over her shoulder.

"Speaking of the rest of us. Where are they?" Giles began pacing again. Star remained his shadow.

"Somewhere near the campus" Willow's eyes lit up "It's almost the same code that the Initiative used"

"You think they're back?" Buffy frowned "Maybe they can kill Spike this time"

"No I'm sure they're not back. It's like a new evil rose to take they're place" Willow said sounding like her old self. "You know nature doesn't allow a vacuum, you have you natural enemy, Vamps, and your unnatural enemy, Man. So this new evil rose to take the niche the Initiative left"

"Is everybody else lost or is it just me?" Mycah asked raising her hand.

Buffy, Dawn, and Xander raised their hands as well.

"She saying when you defeat something, something bigger, stronger, and nastier takes it's place. It's a 'Only the Strong Survive' deal" Anya said digging through the fridge behind the counter "Chocolate anyone?"

"Wow. Smart chicks are so sexy" Mycah said softly.

Buffy stared at her in horror.

Willow just laughed.
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"I wanna patrol, just incase it's vamps" Buffy begged "Giles I have to try. They have my friends"

Giles sighed and conceded.

"I'm coming too" Mycah stood.

"You have to stay here with Kolby" Buffy said hoping to go alone.

"I'm a trained fighter, just like Hyatt. Besides I think she's permenantly attached to your ex-demon friend back there" Mycah blocked the door.

Buffy turned and saw both Star and Kolby leaning against Anya as she read from a book.

"Ok. Deal. But watch your back. I don't wanna have to save your ass" Buffy rolled her eyes and shoved Mycah out of the way.

"Ditto" Mycah smirked.
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Kalindi had sent out the youngest of her new recruits, knowing that their loss would be for the greater good.

"Naida" Kalindi whispered to the young woman who slept next to her on the plush bed "Wake up my love"

Naida slowly opened her clear blue-eyes. As she became more conscious they slid from their original blue to black "Yes Mistress"

"I need you to tell me" Kalindi moved so that she was straddling the human See'r "Who will bring me what I need to know?"

"About the girl?" Naida rested her strong hand on Kalindi's upper thigh.

"Yes. I need to know who she is. I've heard rumors of a kiss" Kalindi settled on the girls bare waist "I believe the Slayer is in love"

"Shall I do it for you Mistress? Shall I learn and tell you of it myself?" Naida's hand slid between her Mistress's legs and carressed her gently.

"Is it what you wish?" Kalindi asked moaning softly.

"Yes Mistress. I wish to know who the Slayer loves" Naida gripped the sensitive nub between the vampires legs and pulled

"So that you may kill her"
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"Yo, Doc. Could you let me the f*ck, outta this thing" Faith harassed the man as he measured her needle "I would really like to be able to walk and kick ya ass at my own pleasure"

"You really think he's gonna respond to that?" Madison asked. She was strapped into a chair with temper tags on both her temples taking a measurement of her brain activity.

"No. But I do so love to mouth off at these people" Faith said flipping Madison off.

"We noticed" the Doctor said as he drew near to her "This will only hurt a bit"

Faith felt the needle pierce her back. She'd been restrained on the bed laying on her stomach. Fire began to shoot through her entire body when he pushed the plunger in.

Faith began to scream as everything in her world went black.

Madison watched in horror as the slayers body began to shake and thrash. He back arching and dropping down and her eyes rolled back in her head.

Outside the examination rooms, and throughout the lower halls of the facility Faiths screams could be heard.

Cash turned and looked at her two newest subjects.

"What are you?" Tara sobbed.

"I'm a scientist. I just want to know what makes you magic types, run?" Cash squatted down "Your such a pretty little thing" she reached out as if to touch Tara through the glass "Is that a glamouier that makes you so prescious?"

"She was born beautiful" Hyatt said. She pleed Tara close to her as the witch let her tears fall.

"You. Well your a prize catch aren't you. Apparently your from some important family" Cash frowned "I don't understand it really. You and your little friend here, almost have a matching Resonance. Do you know what a Resonance is?" Cash smiled. She liked being smarter than her victims.

"It's the wavelength that our hearts give off. Our's are different from regular humans. That's how your people find us. They scan for a certain wave of resonance" Hyatt said steadily "You can even tell what we are exactly by our wavelength. Witches are different than demons, like demons are different than fairy's and nymphs. But you don't quite know what we are do you?" Hyatt taunted "You can tell Tara's a witch, btu there's something more there. But you don't know what it is, and that scares you"

Cash's shit-eating grin had begun to fall when Hyatt answered the question correctly, now it had turned into a viscious scowl "You won't be cocky for long" Cash said in a low voice "I will break you pretty one"

"You can try" Hyatt said evenly meeting the woman's angry eyes.

"Yes I can"
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